Craft Night Idea: Duvet Cover

England resident and mother, Jen Morris has created a duvet cover from her oldest son Daniel's doodles. I LOVE this tutorial, although it's a little time consuming, the final product is so cool and thoughtful. Follow the link to see the tutorial and finished product.

Alder & Co.

The buyers at Alder and Company have read my mind. If you are in the Portland area please visit their shop and touch everything in the store for me.


French linen tote


Ombre throw

Valentine's Day

Is it too soon to be thinking about Valentine's day? Not when it's the sweetest holiday of the year it isn't. I've compiled a list of a few things that I think to be appropriate to give the woman or man of your dreams (or of the moment).

Secretly decorate their room or apartment appropriately.:


Decorate their apartment with plants in nice hanging ceramic things:


Fancy jewelry? Yes please! Vintage Cartier bracelet:

While we are on the topic of baller presents, a trip to Brazil (preferably in the winter time so I can spend my 30th birthday there):


A pair of love dogs: Basset Hounds or Jack Russells. If you don't like Jack Russells, watch the movie Beginners and your mind will be changed.

If you are a practical gift giver/receiver, a cleaning service or cable or magazine subscriptions:
A handmade gift like a knit anatomical heart:


Or a quilt made of old garments that you or your lover used to wear:


Or a necklace made from one of these:


Tickets to a sporting event: One of the best dates I ever went on was a first date to a basketball game:


Their own personal mug at your apartment:


Monogram:

American Servicemen & Women

Emily Prince has chronologically documented the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan by drawing portraits of the fallen. Please go to her site to see her work and to put faces to the numbers that we hear about from so far away.

To read more about this project, please go HERE.

Power of Making

Please watch this video sent to me by my insanely talented friend, Sophie Okulick. It features interviews with a crocheter, a shoe designer, a flute maker and a glass designer. Thank you Sophie!

Prunella

Now that the holidays are over, I've turned 29 and the new year has settled in, it's time to refocus on ourselves and more importantly, bathing.

Janell Anderson, head soap master at Prunella, rains (a weather joke) from Portland, Oregon and makes soaps smelling of cinnamon, lavender vanilla, pink grapefruit oatmeal and unscented, to name a few. The soaps are made from pure olive oil, organic coconut and palm oils, all natural, everything.

Prunella also makes travel soap bars! See Below:

Ghost Dancer

Earrings from Ghost Dancer!